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MAZEN AL.ORABY
Charles Moore :
- Charles Willard Moore .
- (October 31, 1925 – December 16, 1993) .
- Graduated from the University of Michigan in 1947 .
- Earned both a Master's and a Ph.D at
Princeton University in 1957 .
- Moore preferred conspicuous design features, including loud color combinations, supergraphics, stylistic collisions, the re-use of esoteric historical-design solutions, and the use of non-traditional materials such as plastic, (aluminized) PET film
- Such design features (historical detail, ornament, fictional treatments, ironic significations) made Moore one of the chief innovators of postmodern architecture.
The project : Haas school business
- Haas School of Business was first established as the College of Commerce of the University of California in 1898.
- The new building was designed by Charles W. Moore, former chair of Berkeley's Department of Architecture. Construction began in 1993 and the school moved into its new building complex in January 1995.
- Three building complex includes Administration,Classroom
and Faculty wings,all set on a beautifully
landscaped sitewith a large courtyard central to the facility.
Architecture of the building is an host to
ultramodern computer lab, a comprehensive
career center, a cafe, business library, lots of classrooms,
lecture halls and seminar halls.
The complex is linked by a beautifully
landscaped site with a central courtyard
and walkways linking the complex to the rest of the campus.
- Buildings overlooking the central courtyard .
- Depends on the design of elevation on the vertical openings .
- And building design forms is not pure .
- The use of contracts Guy passages between buildings .
- The presence of a bishop tendencies hierarchically and this goes back to the centuries old classic .
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